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Medicine --- Medical ethics --- Medical ethics. --- Medicine. --- Ethics, Medical. --- Translations. --- Practice --- Practice. --- Hippocrates --- Hippocrates. --- Criticism, Textual.

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In Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic , Lesley Dean-Jones and Ralph Rosen have gathered 19 international authorities in ancient medicine to identify commonalities among the treatises of the Hippocratic Corpus which led scholars of antiquity to group them under the single name of Hippocrates. Most recent scholarship has drawn attention to the divergences between individual treatises and groups of treatises, emphasizing the agonistic facet of the ancient medical profession. In contrast, in this volume contributors look to find points of agreement between the writings that go beyond claims of rationality. Topics considered include ontological claims about the discipline of medicine itself, the view of the patient as a perceiving unity, theories on the function of glands and the importance of regimen.

Medicine --- History, Ancient --- Health Workforce --- Philosophy --- History --- Hippocrates.

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The present volume offers the first critical edition of the medieval Arabic translation of Galen's Commentary on Book 2 of the Hippocratic Epidemics produced by Hunayn ibn Ishaq (d. ca. 870). The edition is based on all extant Arabic textual witnesses, including the Arabic secondary transmission. The Greek original of this text is lost; the Arabic translation is therefore the only intact witness to this important work. The number and extent of "ations from this commentary in medieval Arabic medical writings, which are documented in the introduction to the volume, demonstrate that it became a crucial source for the development of medicine in the Islamic world. It also gave rise to a wide range of didactic writings which illustrate its importance for medical teaching. The English translation aims to convey some of the flavour of the Arabic text. The volume also contains comprehensive indices that map out the terminology and style of the translation.

Epidemics --- Medicine --- Hippocrates. --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Outbreaks --- Communicable diseases --- Health Workforce --- Arabic medicine. --- Galen. --- ancient medicine. --- history of medicine. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.